Shales vs Amanpour

What a load of hooey. I think Amanpour is a brilliant idea for hosting This Week, calm, authoritative, not caught up in Beltway process, able to say what she thinks - on torture and Israel, for example - while remaining careful to include other views. Genius. A vast improvement on the charisma-free insider, Stephanopoulos.

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